The Daily Beast reports today that if Steve Bannon is denied a security clearance, the President could simply overrule that denial and… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
My pick for Best Political Move of the Year, which is the decisive (ph) and this means it is actually the best… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Trying to turn the Congress the President on the Iran deal, - it's one thing to do that - it's a giant… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
169 House Democrats signed a letter to the President-elect [Donald Trump] urging him to "rescind this appointment [of Steve Bannon ] immediately." — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I'm just learning that according to a source familiar with the transition process, President-elect Donald Trump intends to select Lieutenant General Michael… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Jeff Sessions wished he wasn't the attorney general. The president Donald Trump has the most incompetent cabinet in history, and he's unhappy… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Republican Party is saying that the president of the United States has bosses, that the union bosses this president around -… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It's hard to think of John McCain without thinking about what a ball of energy he is. I remember when I was… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The president Donald Trump told the "New York Times" that he regrets appointing Jeff Sessions. And when a president expresses no confidence… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The "New York Times" interview shows that the president Donald Trump believes he can get through the special prosecutor's investigation of obstruction… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
It is amazing that Jeff Sessions is still in the job. Any self-respecting Attorney General of the United States would have publicly… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Sixty one percent of Donald Trump's supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump's… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump's supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Someone who traffics in much more than what Jeff Sessions said back then will be with the president every day in the… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
All writers are forced to live within deadlines, and deadlines determine how good they can be. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use? — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Prosecutors have absolutely no control over what witnesses say when they leave the grand jury room. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Because Republicans defected and voted with all the Democrats to reject Jeff Sessions' nomination when they discovered that when he was working as a… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I've never understood the value of putting someone on television to lie, knowing that they're going to lie ahead of time, knowing that that… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
The Trump view of immigration defies our history. Immigration is a transaction that has historically benefited the country. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was.… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
If a reader comes across a story that makes them cry, you can be sure that the writer felt every single thing that makes… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
National security advisors are not there to be advocates, generally. They're not there to be partisans, they're not there to be ideologues. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Never once has Republican world said hey, maybe we should look into how police officers are carrying out their solemn public responsibility to serve… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
![“[Adviser is] the ones who do the job very well are the ones who lay out the range of options, filter down the range of options that are available to the president, lay them out in an honest, brokerage way and then let the president make the choice among those options.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c4c/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_adviser_adviser-is-the-ones-who-do-the-job-very_910002.jpg)
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![“That seems to be a woman who is genuinely depressed that this is the political dialogue she [Hillary Clinton] is been thrown into in the 21st century in running for president of the United States.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d42/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_21st-century_that-seems-to-be-a-woman-who-is-genuinel_1017600.jpg)
![“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you're hearing someone who doesn't know what they're…” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/407/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_barack_fifty-four-percent-of-republican-voters_508959.jpg)
![“Sixty one percent of Donald Trump's supporters believe that President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States.They believe Donald Trump's lie about where President Obama was born, the lie he started telling four years ago and has since replaced with other hate-driven lies like the…” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d35/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_barack_sixty-one-percent-of-donald-trump-s-supp_1141408.jpg)
![“Probably about 35 percent of Donald Trump's supporters do not believe that President [Barack] Obama is Muslim or that he was not born in the United States.Those Trump supporters are not white supremacists. But if Trump did not have the support of Obama haters who believe that the President is a…” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/6e3/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_barack_probably-about-35-percent-of-donald-trum_821556.jpg)
![“Forty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama was not born in the United States. They believe he is not a legal citizen of the United States.They believe his presidency is unconstitutional.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf4/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_barack_forty-four-percent-of-republican-voters_1814293.jpg)
![“In this case, the government will essentially be run by the people who are running it now. The top level [Barack] Obama appointees will leave by inauguration day.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1ae/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_barack_in-this-case-the-government-will-essenti_78004.jpg)
![“I don't think anybody knows it was Russia that broke into the DNC. She [Hillary Clinton] is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. I mean, it could be Russia. But it could also be China. It could also be lots of other people.” quote by Lawrence O'Donnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c72/lawrence-o-donnell-1701_broke_i-don-t-think-anybody-knows-it-was-russi_115025.jpg)
